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His head lay back, and one of his hands hung listlessly over the arm of the chair.Cited from Armadale, by Wilkie Collins

The impulse of work soon came again, however.One beautiful June day the manuscript met his eye, while looking listlessly over some old papers.He read one scene and was struck by its beauty.…Cited from Great Italian and French Composers, by George T. Ferris

That night she showed him the anonymous scrawl which had kindled her fury against him.He turned it listlessly over in his hand.…Cited from Entire PG Edition of William Dean Howells

"She is there; and this is our son."Camors let his hand pass listlessly over the child's hair.…Cited from Monsieur de Camors by Octave Feuillet, v1

But it is not Jack I want to speak about.I turned listlessly over the pages of the album, stopping suddenly at the face of a beautiful girl.…Cited from My Lady Nicotine, by J. M. Barrie

He was always writing -- or if not writing, reading; or brooding listlessly over the fire.Cited from Monsieur Maurice, by Amelia B. Edwards

The September afternoon sun streamed into the study at Verner's Pride, playing with the bright hair of Lionel Verner.His head was bending listlessly over certain letters and papers on his table, and there was a wearied look upon his face.Was it called up by the fatigue of the day?…Cited from Verner's Pride, by Mrs. Henry Wood

She was seated a little apart from the rest, one white arm hanging listlessly over the harp upon which she had just been playing.Her large dark eyes had a far-away look of utter abstraction from all sub-lunary matters that I have never seen in anyone besides.…Cited from The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 1, January 1891, ed. by Charles W. Wood

His hand, which shook so at starting that it was odds whether he got his glass to his mouth or his ear, was now steadied, but his glazed eye and green haggard countenance showed at what a fearful sacrifice the temporary steadiness had been obtained.At last his jaw dropped on his chest, his left arm hung listlessly over the back of the chair, and he fell asleep.Captain Quod, too, was overcome, and threw himself full-length on the sofa.…Cited from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, by R. S. Surtees

There was a pause for a moment as the child looked over at Morrison, revolving the thought in her mind.The Union officer had passed into a sudden reverie, the hand holding his coffee cup hanging listlessly over his knee.He was thinking of another little girl, and one as dear to him as this man's child was to her father.…Cited from The Littlest Rebel, by Edward Peple

The other, who was bound not to leave him, very delicately and considerately affected to be looking out of window the moment I was shown in.He was sitting on the side of his bed, with his head drooping and his hands hanging listlessly over his knees when I first caught sight of him.…Cited from The Queen of Hearts, by Wilkie Collins

Still the step was bold, and Lucilla loved devotedly enough to be timid; and besides, her inexperience made her look upon the journey as a far more formidable expedition than it really was.Debating the notion in her mind, she sought her usual retreat, and turned listlessly over the books which she had so lately loved to study.…Cited from Godolphin, by E. B. Lytton, Vol. 4

Not daring to reply, she glanced listlessly over the hymn on the card, but took up none of its meaning.She had never been conscious of any heavy burden of sin to be "laid on Jesus."…Cited from Lucy Raymond, by Agnes Maule Machar

The "pernicious foreigner" is once more on the shores of Alta California.The Mexican eagle flutters listlessly over the sea gates of the great West.The serpent coils of foreign conspiracy are twining around it.…Cited from The Little Lady of Lagunitas, Richard Henry Savage

The fire, which had at its first kindling been large, was now smouldering as though it had not been touched for several hours.The Indian was seated on a large stone, his arms hanging listlessly over his knees, and his head sunk so low that his features could not be seen.Instead of the defiant scalp-lock drooping from his crown, his hair was long and luxuriant, and plentifully mixed with gray.…Cited from Adrift in the Wilds, by Edward S. Ellis

His eager curiosity, however, led him to put spurs to his horse, and range up alongside of the coach as if passing it, while he examined the stranger more closely.Her face was bent listlessly over a book; there was unmistakably the same profile that he had seen, but the full face was different in outline and expression.…Cited from In A Hollow Of The Hills, by Bret Harte

Women glanced listlessly over the pages of the magazines.Men drew their traveling caps over their eyes and settled down for a doze.…Cited from Bert Wilson in the Rockies, by J. W. Duffield

For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing.But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller.…Cited from The Short-story, by William Patterson Atkinson

She had Duke Jehan's adoration, and his barons' obeisancy, and his villagers applauded her passage with stentorian shouts.She passed interminable days amid bright curious arrasses and trod listlessly over pavements strewn with flowers.…Cited from Chivalry, by James Branch Cabell

For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third.Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless, sleepy stories about nothing.But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller.…Cited from Legends That Every Child Should Know,H.W.Mabie